In one version of events
Jonah was swallowed
by the whale
nightly and each morning
he recounted his story.
Jonah was shut
in a windowless room and instructed
to draw his whale.
The instructor was kind.
This was no age of monsters.
In one version of events
Jonah put thumbtacks
in his eyes
and sounded the room's
shadowy circumference.
By mike white